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Sunday, 29 November 2015

Scientific evidence of how Turkey exports ISIS oil to the world

Over
the course of the last four or so weeks, the media has paid quite a bit
of attention to Islamic State's lucrative trade in "stolen" crude.

On November 16, in a highly publicized effort, US warplanes destroyed 116 ISIS oil trucks in Syria. 45 minutes prior, leaflets were dropped advising drivers (who Washington is absolutely sure are not ISIS members themselves) to "get out of [their] trucks and run away."
The peculiar thing about the US strikes is that it took The
Pentagon nearly 14 months to figure out that the most effective way to
cripple Islamic State's oil trade is to bomb... the oil.

Prior to November, the US "strategy" revolved around bombing the
group's oil infrastructure. As it turns out, that strategy was
minimally effective at best and it's not entirely clear that an effort
was made to inform The White House, Congress, and/or the public about
just how little damage the airstrikes were actually inflicting. There
are two possible explanations
as to why Centcom may have sought to make it sound as though the
campaign was going better than it actually was, i) national intelligence
director James Clapper pulled a Dick Cheney and pressured Maj. Gen.
Steven Grove into delivering upbeat assessments, or ii) The Pentagon and
the CIA were content with ineffectual bombing runs because intelligence
officials were keen on keeping Islamic State's oil revenue flowing so
the group could continue to operate as a major destabilizing element
vis-a-vis the Assad regime.

Ultimately, Russia cried foul at the perceived ease with which ISIS
transported its illegal oil and once it became clear that Moscow was set
to hit the group's oil convoys, the US was left with virtually no
choice but to go along for the ride. Washington's warplanes destroyed
another 280 trucks earlier this week. Russia claims to have vaporized more than 1,000 transport vehicles in November.
Of course the most intriguing questions when it comes to Islamic
State's $400 million+ per year oil business, are: where does this oil
end up and who is facilitating delivery? In an effort to begin answering those questions we wrote:

"Turkey has played a key role in facilitating the life-blood of ISIS'
expansion: black market oil sales. Senior political and intelligence
sources in Turkey and Iraq confirm that Turkish authorities have
actively facilitated ISIS oil sales through the country. Last summer,
Mehmet Ali Ediboglu, an MP from the main opposition, the Republican
People's Party, estimated the quantity of ISIS oil sales in Turkey at
about $800 million - that was over a year ago. By now, this implies that Turkey has facilitated over $1 billion worth of black market ISIS oil sales to date."

Information Clearing House

Alison Weir / If Americans Knew...

The Corbett Report

Centre for Research on Globalisation

Signs of the Times

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